President Trump recently instituted new tariffs on two allies and one adversary: 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% ...
Trump’s misguided belief that inside of every Canadian there is an American waiting to get out is a misconception that is ...
The end result was a navy that built an empire and truly ruled the waves. For the whole of this period impressment – the roving of press gangs round English towns conscripting men to serve – was ...
The institution that valued that commodity least was the Royal Navy. Perhaps the most resented British naval practice in this period was impressment, the seizure of experienced seamen (and, after 1798 ...